The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.